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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.

Janis Joplin

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
JANIS JOPLIN

Confusion Different Full Hard Hurt Kid Lot Thing
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Beer Bottle Gimme Humorous Pigfoot
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Bullshit Inside Mostly Person Trying World
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN

Benz Buy Car Dream Lord Materialism Mercedes Benz Passion
.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
I love being a star more than life itself.
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Fame Itself Life Love More Star
What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
JANIS JOPLIN

Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLIN

Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
JANIS JOPLIN

Everywhere Important Out Person Singer Singing Sort Started Street
All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLIN

Girl Love Man Rock Roll Star
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN

Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLIN

Finding Love Look Mr Now Right
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
JANIS JOPLIN

Always Beer Couple Except Somewhere Sudden Voice

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.

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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.

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